Word: goldin
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...proved fatally unreliable, and the proposed space station has been stuck on the drawing board for 10 years. With no vision to lift NASA, the agency is trapped in a downward spiral of mediocrity only slightly relieved by the brilliant repair of the Hubble telescope last winter. Administrator Daniel Goldin recently proposed a new mission: NASA should set a long-range goal of finding a habitable planet close to a nearby star. While this might have very long-term survival advantages for the human race, it seems unlikely to win the enthusiasm of a Congress that just canceled NASA...
...energy nearly makes up for the inevitability of them looking at least ten years too old to be in high school. Headlined by Rosie O'Donnell as Rizzo, the cast ably fills the cardboard stereotypes: Michelle Blakely as prissy Patty Simcox, Jessica Stone as aimless Frenchy, and Ricky Paull Goldin as tough-guy Danny Zuko...
...fact, said ASA administrator Daniel Goldin, presenting the first images from the born-again telescope at a press conference last week, "it's better than new. The telescope now gathers light four times as efficiently as it did before the repairs." Its eyesight is so sharp, say scientists, that if it were sitting in Washington, it could spot a firefly in Tokyo...
...relevance, Goldin is adamant: "The agency doesn't exist for the benefit of its employees," he says. "It exists for the benefit of the American people." NASA has a new Advanced Concepts and Technology Program, designed to help private companies capitalize on the space agency's expertise. One beneficiary could be the auto industry, which could use such products of NASA technology as lightweight materials and compact power systems...
...criticism of NASA, there are still plenty of people who believe that humanity has a basic need to explore the final frontier. Said Goldin on the eve of Endeavour's launch: "This is what we need to be doing. NASA exists to do bold, noble and innovative things. You can't make progress unless you take risks." The television audiences that watched the astronauts perform last week were much smaller than those that watched Neil Armstrong's first step onto the moon in 1969. But even the most jaded viewer had to be inspired by the sight...